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JEWELL PARKER RHODES HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]" [email protected] www.jewellparkerrhodes.com
EDUCATION:
1979 Doctor of Arts in English/Creative Writing, Carnegie-Mellon University Passed doctoral orals with distinction Dissertation: "My Mother's Child" (A Novel)
1976 Master of Arts in English, Carnegie-Mellon University
1975 Bachelor of Arts in Drama Criticism (Honors), Carnegie-Mellon University;
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
2013-2016 Founding Artistic Director, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University (sabbatical & administrative leave Fall 2015 – December 2017)
2007-2013 Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University;
2003- 2007 Founding Artistic Director, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University
Director of Strategic Projects in the Humanities, Arizona State University
Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program, Arizona State University
1992-1993 Director of Creative Writing Program, California State University, Northridge
1990-1992 Director of English Honors Program, California State University, Northridge
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2018- Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair in Creative Writing; Professor of Narrative Studies, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts; College of Liberal Arts and Science 2003 - 2017 Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair in Creative Writing
1994-2003 Professor of Creative Writing and American Literature, Arizona State University; affiliate faculty, Women's Studies Program (since 1996)
Visiting Distinguished Professor, Trinity College, Hartford, Ct.
1993-1994 Professor of English/Creative Writing, California State University, Northridge
1991-1993 Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing, California State University, Northridge
1984-1991 Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing, California State University, Northridge; also, an Assistant Professor, 1984-1986
1979-1984 Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing, University of Maryland at College Park; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Maryland at College Park (1980-1984)
GUEST FACULTY EXPERIENCE (since 2001):
2021 We Need Diverse Books, Mentoring and Technique Lecture on “Plot, Conflict, and Character”
2018 “Creating Sassy, Empathetic Characters Changing the World,” Youth Camp, Jackson Hole Writers Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2017 Hamline University, featured author/teacher, “Modeling Worlds: Creating Diverse and Empathetic Characters”
2017 Lecture, Oakland University Author & Illustrator’s Course, Michigan, “Writing Cultural Diversity”
2015 Jackson Hole Writers Conference. Wyoming (Keynote, workshop leader and mentor)
2014 Featured Author/Moderator, Financial Times/Oxford Literary Festival, Creative Writing Program, Trinity College
11-13 Featured Author, Sunday Times/Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford, England; Creative Writing Program, Trinity College; featured author, Lewes Festival, England
06-11 Sichuan University, Lead Teacher and Curriculum Developer for an innovative program to teach creativity, creative writing, and the pedagogy of creative writing to Sichuan University faculty; Lectures, multi-week writing workshops, seminars, both in-class and on-line teaching are part of the pedagogical strategy; Sichuan University will introduce its first creative writing course to its curriculum in Fall 2009, Chengdu, China
2008 Black Writers Reunion & Conference, Tampa, Florida; Carlow College, Low Residency MFA Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2007 Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference, Santa Barbara, California; Carlow College Low-Residency, MFA, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
2005 Vermont College, MFA Low Residency Program, Montpelier, Vermont
Greyrock Writing Institute, Denver, Colorado
2003 MFA Writer-in-Residence, Hamlin University, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2002 Hurston-Wright Literary Conference, Washington, D.C.
2001 Various: Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writers' Conference, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland; Hurston-Wright Literary Conference, Washington DC; Visiting Lucille Clifton Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Alma College, Alma, Michigan
BOOKS:
Two untitled books for Little Brown Books for Young Readers, under contract
Soul Step (picture book) Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Accepted Manuscript; Artist is at work, illustrating, Hardcover, 2024
Treasure Island (novel) Harper-Collins. Hardcover, 2022. (Film rights: Temple Hill Productions)
Paradise On Fire (novel) Little Brown Books for Young Readers Hardcover, September 2021 Large Print Edition, Thorndike Press, 2021 Hachette Audio Edition, 2021 International Publications: Orion Books, Hachette Livre, United Kingdom, 2022
Magic City (novel) Reissued Paperback, HarperPerennial, May 2021
Black Brother, Black Brother (novel) Little Brown Books for Young Readers Hardcover, March 2020; Paperback, March 2021 Large Print Edition, Thorndike Press (2021) Scholastic Book Club & Book Fair Editions Junior Library Guild Selection Hachette Audio Edition
International Publications: Orion Books, Hachette Livre, United Kingdom, 2021
Subscription Boxes: Literati/Steph Curry Subscription Box Peace Box
Film: Under contract (Company Not Yet Announced)
Honors for Black Brother, Black Brother: New York Times bestseller Oklahoma Sequoyah Award Master List, 2021-2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature, Youth/Teen, 2021 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2020 Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Master List, 2021-2022 South Carolina Junior Book Award, 2021-22 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts, 2021 Amazon’s Editor’s Pick 20 best children’s books of 2021 Amazon’s Best Children’s Books, 9-12, 2020 Amazon Best Books Best Book of the Year So Far, 2020 Amazon's Best Books of March 2020 Dog Eared Book Award, 2020 INDIEs NEXT PICK List Top Ten, 2020 Winner, Middle Grade, New England Independent Bookstores Book Award, 2020 Texas Blue Bonnet Master List 2021-2022 Golden Poppy Award Honoree, Mirrors and Windows for Youth/Middle Grade King County, Washington Library System Best Books 2020 Book Riot Best Books of 2020 Finalist, 2022 Nebraska Sower Award The 2020 Nerdies: Middle Grade Fiction Top Picks for Reluctant Readers, (YALSA), the teen interest division of ALA, 2021
Ghost Boys (graphic novel) Little Brown Books for Young Readers, forthcoming 2022
Ghost Boys (novel) Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, April 2018; paperback, September 2019 Scholastic Book Club & Book Fair Editions
Junior Library Guild Selection Hachette Audio Edition, 2018 Earphones Award Winner Large Print Edition, Thorndike Press (2019)
Subscriptions: New Book Joy “Underrated,” Stephen Curry Book Club with Literati
International Publications: Reclam Verlag/Dietrich Kloss Classroom Edition in English and German, 2021 Youth Cultural Enterprise Co. LTD. Taiwan, Translation 2021 Hyoron-Sha Publishing Co., Japan, Translation 2020 Orion Books, Hachette Livre, United Kingdom, 2018
Film: Under Option
Honors for Ghost Boys: New York Times Bestseller An instant IndieBound bestseller 2022 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award 2022 master list 2020-2025 Lincoln City Libraries' revised "Top 100 Novels for Youth" 2020-2021 William Allen Children’s Book Award Winner 6th-8th grade 2020-21 Missouri Truman Book Award Final Nominee (Middle Grade) 2020-21 Volunteer State Book Award Master List, Tennessee 2020-21 Maud Hart Lovelace Honor Book 2020-21 Young Hoosiers Award Selection (Middle Grade) 2020-21 Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award 2020-21 Virginia Reader’s Choice List (High School category) 2020-21 Indiana Young Hoosier Nominee 2020-2021 Nebraska Golden Sower Novel Award Winner (Grades 7th – 8th) 2020 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee, Tween Category 2020 Jenna Bush’s Book Club - 1st Children’s Book Club Pick 2019 North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, Middle School Division 2019-20 Texas Blue Bonnet Master List Children’s Book Council Children’s Choice Award Dorothy Canfield Fischer Children’s Book Award, Master List 2019-20 Great Lakes Great Books Reading List for Grades 4-5 2019-20 Black-Eyed Susan Award Winner, Grades 6-8, (MARYLAND) 2019 Massachusetts Children’s Literature Award, Nominee 2019 Longlist, United Kingdom Literary Association Book Awards 2019 Nominated Sakura Book Award Middle Grade 2019 Winner of The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Older Children 2019 Charlotte Huck Honor Award for Outstanding Children’s Fiction 2019 The Walter Dean Myer Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature 2019 Texas Lone Star Master List 2019 Children’s Choice Book Awards 2019 Shortlisted, Trinity Schools Book Award (UK) 2019 Indies Choice / EB White Read-Aloud Award 2019 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People (National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) for Sixth to Eighth Grade 2019 YALSA Picks for Young Adult Reluctant Readers 2019 Nerdy Book Club Middle Grade Fiction 2019 Youth Selection; One Book Philadelphia 2019 Good Reads Choice Award Finalist for Middle Grade and Children’s Fiction 2019 Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Youth Literature, Pennsylvania School Librarians Association, GHOST BOYS 2019 Carnegie Nominee Long List 2019 Bucks Book Award Longlist (UK) 2019 Shortlisted Brilliant Book Award, Nottingham City & Derbyshire, England 2018-2019 NEA’s Read Across America Selection 2018-19 Project Lit Community Selection 2018-19 Book Taco Readers Pick 2018 AudioFile Earphones Award Winner 2018 Longlisted for United Kingdom Literacy Award; UKLA2019 2018 HuffPost Best Children’s Books, According to Librarians 2018 Center for the Study of Multi-Cultural Children’s Literature, Best Books 2018 Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2018 2018 North Atlantic Independent Booksellers Children’s Book of the Year 2018 North Atlantic Independent Booksellers Carla Cohen Free Speech Award 2018 UK The Book Trust “Future Classics” Selection 2018 Junior Library Guild Selection 2018 #1 Indie Kids Next Pick/Spring 2018 Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2018 2018 Amazon Best Books of the Year So Far, July 2018 2018 NYC Subway Train E-book Promotion 2018 Barnes & Noble “inspiring stories” feature promotion 2018 Barnes & Noble, “Best Books of 2018 for Young Readers’” promotion. 2018 Bank Street College Best Books of 2018 Children’s List Towers Falling (novel) Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, July 2016; Paperback, April 2018 Scholastic Book Club & Book Fair Editions Junior Library Guild Hachette Audio Edition
Honors for Towers Falling: 2020 Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Honor Book 2019 Massachusetts Children's Book Award, Master List 2018 Barnes & Noble “inspiring stories” feature promotion 2019 Louisiana Young Readers Choice List 2018-19 Nebraska Sower’s Award Nominee 2018-19 Keystone to Reading Nominee 2017-18 Maine Student Book Award 2018 Rhode Island Children’s Book Award 2017-18 Black Eyed Susan Award Nominee 2017-2018 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List 2017-2018 Project Lit Community Selection 2017 Books Matter Book of the Month: January 2017 2017 Barnes & Noble promotion, “History Every Kid Should Know” 2017 Capitol Choices List, Washington DC 2017 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Selection (Children's Book Council) 2017 Notable Books for a Global Society Winner (International Reading Association) 2016 Amazon Best Books of the Month July 2016, Ages 9-12 2016 Junior Library Guild Selection 2016 IndieBound Summer Kids' Indie Next List 2016 Books Matter: The Best Kid Lit on Bias, Diversity and Social Justice (Anti- Defamation League) 2016 Seventeen Magazine Best Young Adult Books 2016 Book Inc. Mirrors & Windows Award Winner 2016 Nerdy Book Club Nerdies: Middle Grade Fiction Winner
Bayou Magic (novel) Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 2015; May Paperback, May 2016 Recorded Books Audio Edition Educational Edition, Data Recognition Corporation Scholastic Book Fairs & Book Clubs
Film: Two “Ghostwriter” Episodes: Sesame/Apple TV, forthcoming Honors for Bayou Magic: 2020 “Read Brave” Initiative, Saint Paul Public Schools and Libraries 2017-18 South Carolina Book School Library Award Nominee 2017 New York Public Library Subway Train HYPERLINK "http://gothamist.com/ 2017/06/08/nypl_subway_library.php#photo-1" http://gothamist.com/2017/06/08/ nypl_subway_library.php#photo-1 2017 Scholastic 100 Best Read Aloud Books http://www.scholastic.com/100BestReadAloudBooks/ 2017 Featured on Lily.com, “10 Black Girl Books That Will Change your Summer” HYPERLINK "https://thelily.com/10-black-girl-books-that-will-change-your- summer-8e1c0a2026ef" \t "_blank" https://thelily.com/10-black-girl-books-that-will- change-your-summer-8e1c0a2026ef 2015 Los Angeles Times Reading Selection 2015 We Need Diverse Books, Spring Educational Selection 2015 L.A. Leimert Park Book Fair, Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Awards- Children’s Fiction
Sugar (novel) Little Brown for Young Readers, Educational Reprint in print/e-book and Audio Reissue: National Geographic Learning/Cengage Learning, March 2019 Paperback, May 2014 Hardcover, May 2013 Scholastic Book Club & Book Fair Editions Junior Library Guild Selection Brilliance Audio, 2013
International Publications: Chinese edition Korean edition, Hollym Corp., Publishers, Renewed for five years
Honors for Sugar: 2016 Oklahoma Sequoya Children’s Book Award Master List 2015-16 Kansas’ William Allen White Award master list for grades three to five 2014 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Older Children 2014-2015 South Carolina Association of School Librarians Children’s Book Award Nominee, winner announced March 2015 2014 Named “BEST OF” title by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2014 Best Books of the Year List, Bank Street College of Education 2014 Cooperative Children’s Book Center CCBC Choices Pick 2014 Notable Children’s Book, American Library Association 2014 Audie Award Finalist 2014-2015 Black-Eyed Susan Master List, Maryland Library Association 2013 Kirkus Reviews, Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013 Kirkus Reviews, Best Middle Grade Books that Make History Come Alive 2013 International Reading Association Notable Book for a Global Society 2013 An IndieBound Kids’ Next List 2013 Junior Library Guild Selection
The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy: Season, Moon, and Hurricane (adult novels) Special E-book Trilogy Edition, November 2012
Ninth Ward (novel) Little Brown for Young Readers, Paperback, August 2012 Hardcover, August 2010 Scholastic Book Club & Book Fair Editions Black Expressions Book Club Audio, Recorded Books, 2010
International Publications: Korean, Diam Publishing, 2011 Chinese, Aurora Publishing, 2015 (renewed 2018) French Edition, 2016 Korean, Diam Publishing, 2011
Honors for Ninth Ward: 2017 Social Justice Books, “See What We See” 2017 University of Phoenix, Education Department's Social Justice List 2017 National Network of State Teachers of the Year
2011-2012 The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award, Master List 2011 Notable Children’s Book, American Library Association 2011 Jane Addams Honor Book Award for Older Children 2011 New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Pick 2011 Cooperative Children’s Book Center CCBC Choices Pick 2011 Honor Book, Judy Lopez Memorial Award of Excellence 2011 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction List 2011 International Reading Association Notable Books for a Global Society 2011 Editor’s Choice by Library Media Connection 2011 Time Out Chicago First Book Club Pick 2011 Finalist, Best Fiction for Middle Grade, Goodreads.com, Choice Awards 2010 Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award 2010 Parents Choice Foundation Gold Award 2010 Al Roker “Today Show” Book Club Selection 2010, Best Fiction of 2010, School Library Journal 2010 An IndieBound Kids’ Next List Hurricane (novel) Trade Edition, Washington Square Press, NY, 2011 Audio, Recorded Books, April 2011
Yellow Moon (novel) Trade Paperback, Washington Square Press, 2009 Hardcover, Atria: Simon and Schuster, NY, August, 2008 Black Expressions Book Club Selection, 2008 Audio, Recorded Books, 2009 Excerpted for Best African American Fiction, 2010; “Dillard University: Friday Late Afternoon,” Yellow Moon, Best African American Fiction 2010, ed. Nikki Giovanni, Bantam Books, 2010, p. 145-160
Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness (memoir) Trade Paperback, Atria, 2008 Hardcover, Atria: Simon and Schuster, New York, 2006
Honors for Porch Stories: Arizona Book Award, Best Autobiography/Biography/Memoir 2007 Arizona Book Award, Best Multicultural Book
Reissue: Season (novel, formerly Voodoo Season), Trade Edition, Washington Square Press, NY, 2011
Voodoo Season (novel) Trade Paperback, Washington Square Press, 2006 Hardcover, Atria: Simon & Schuster, NY, 2005 Black Expressions Book Club Selection, 2005 Audio, Recorded Books, 2006
Honors for Voodoo Season: Finalist, Mystery Category, African American Literary Awards
Douglass' Women (novel) Mass Market, Washington Square Press, 2005 Trade Paperback, Washington Square Press, 2003 Hardcover, Atria: Simon and Schuster, 2002 Black Expressions Book Club Selection, 2002 Audio: Recorded Books, LLC, 2003 NPR “Selected Shorts” excerpt, aired nationally
Honors for Douglass’ Women: 2014 Best Book, Metropolitan Baptist Women’s Literary Ministry, Oklahoma 2011 Finalist for “Best Historical Author” 20th Anniversary Gala, Go On Girl! Book Club 2004 Author of the Year Award, Go On Girl! Book Club 2003 American Book Award 2003 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing 2003 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction 2003 Urban Spectrum #1 Historical Fiction of the Year 2003 Fiction Finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Fiction 2003 Fiction Finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
African American Guide To Writing and Publishing Non-Fiction Trade Original, Harlem Moon: Doubleday: New York & London, 2001
Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors Trade Original, Main Street Books/Doubleday: New York and London, 1999 Quality Paperback Book Club, 1999
Magic City (novel) Trade Paperback, HarperPerennial, 1998 Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club Selection, 1998 Hardcover, HarperCollins, USA, 1997 Audio, Recorded Books, 2009 International Publications: Hardcover, Hodder-Headline Book Publishing, London, 1997 Paperback, Hodder-Headline, 1997
Honors for Magic City: 1997 Named by the Chicago Tribune as a Favorite Book of the Year
Voodoo Dreams (novel) Trade Paperback, Picador USA, 1995 Quality Paperback Book Club, 1994 Hardcover, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993 Audio: Recorded Books, LLC, 2002 E-book Edition
International Publications: Kemizy, Turkey, forthcoming Hardcover, Sperling Publishers, Italy, 2000 Paperback, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Germany, 1997 Hardcover, Kruger (Fischerlog Publishing), Germany, 1995 Paperback, Hodder-Headline Book Publishing, London, 1994 Hardcover, Hodder-Headline Book Publishing, London, 1994 World Books Alternate Selection, Book Club Association, London, 1994 Book Club Association-Mystery/Thriller Book Club Selection, 1994 & 1995 Film and Television Rights Currently Under Option
Honors for Voodoo Dreams: 2002 Recorded Books, LLC (Audio Distinction/ Earphones Award) 1993 Selected for Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" series 1993 Pulitzer Prize Nominee
EDITED BOOKS:
“Writing in Color,” ed. Jericho Brown, Howard University
“Ten Unforgettable Mother-Daughter Relationships in Fiction,” Jewell Parker Rhodes & Kelly McWilliams, Moms Don’t Have Time To, ed. Zibby Owens, Skyhorse Publishing, 2021
“Devotedly, Virginia,” author, Melissa Pritchard, Arizona State University/Piper Center, Editor & Production Manager: Jewell Parker Rhodes, 2008
Rhodes, et al. Heath Middle Level Literature Anthologies and Literature Collection, (Textbook series for middle school students), D.C. Heath & Co., Mass. 1995
DRAMA:
Lyricist: "Rain, Rain, Come Again" and "Water" (composer, Ken LaFave) commissioned by the Phoenix Boys Choir for Water Rhythms, premier in 2001
Story for Water Rhythms, a co-production with the Phoenix Boys Choir, the jazz orchestra, Young Sounds of Arizona, and Dance Action; premiere: November 15-17, 2001, Orpheum Theater, Phoenix, Az
“Voodoo Dreams”: Workshop Production by the Institute for the Study of Fine Arts, Arizona State University, February 24-25, 2001
Honors for Voodoo Dreams, the play: Cited as "Most Innovative" Theater Piece of Arizona Professional Theater Season, 2000-2001, by the Arizona Republic
OTHER CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS:
Rhodes, “Why I Write,” IBBY Link UK, “Voices from the USA: Publishing for Young People in the United States,” Issue 60, Spring 2021 Rhodes, “What Kids Are Reading,” Renaissance Publishing, 2021, p. 3
Rhodes, “My Dark-Skinned Son, My Light-Skinned Daughter,” Boston Globe, 2020
Kelly McWilliams and Jewell Parker Rhodes, “10 Unforgettable Mother-Daughter Relationships in Fiction,” We Found Time, editor, Zibby Owens, 2020
Rhodes, “Griffen,” Love Can Be—Essays and Poems About Our Animals, A Literary Collection,” ed. Teresa Miller, Kirkpatrick Foundation, 2019
Rhodes, “Prompt,” The Creativity Project, edited by Colby Sharp, 2018, p
“Dillard University: Friday Late Afternoon,” Yellow Moon, Best African American Fiction 2010, ed. Nikki Giovanni, Bantam Books, 2010, p. 145-160.
Rhodes, “Dynamic Dialogue: Three Exercises,” Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, ed. Bret Anthony Johnson, Random House, 2008
“Literary Valentine,” Arizona Monthly, February 2005
“Ernestine: A Grandmother’s Memories,” Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood, ed. Cecelie Berry, Doubleday, 2004, p. 22-37
“Mixed Blood Stew,” In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, ed. Lee Gutkind, W.W. Norton, 2004; "Mixed Blood Stew," Creative Nonfiction, Diversity Issue, Number 19, 2002, p. 107-115; Writing: From Idea to Essay, eds. McCuen- Metherell, et al, Wadsworth Publishing
"Interview with Jewell Parker Rhodes," Water-Stone Review, vol. 6, no. 1, Fall 2003
"Forward," Proverbs for the People (eds. Price-Thompson & Stovall) Kensington Publishing, June 2003
"Meeting Frederick," (novel excerpt) Gumbo: Stories by Black Writers, ed. by Marita Golden & E. Lynn Harris, Harlem Moon, a division of Doubleday, September 2002, p. 458-464; Excerpt read for NPR Radio at Symphony Space
"Love Be True," (novel excerpt) Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts and Letters, Premiere Issue, Fall 2002
"Finding Your Voice," (excerpt from African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction), Black Ink, vol. 11, The African American Newsletter from Doubleday Broadway, 2002
"Marie Laveau, New Orleans Voodoo Queen," (essay) CITYAZ, May/June issue, 2001, p. 106
"Georgia on Her Mind," (memoir) Oxford American, November/December 2000, Issue #36, p. 122-128
"Learning to Love Arizona," (essay & Voodoo Dreams excerpt) Arizona Republic, Section F3, October 8, 2000
"Getting Ready to Work: Claiming a Journal, the Writer Within," excerpt from Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors, Black Ink, vol. 5, Doubleday, 1999
"Creating Character," excerpt from Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors, Poets & Writers, Nov/Dec. 1999
"Know What I Mean?" Chapter 7 from Magic City, and an essay about how my writing style has changed within the past decade, Seattle Review: Twentieth Anniversary Issue, Spring 1999
"Evan," (memoir essay) Between Mothers and Sons: Reflections by Women Writers, ed. Pat Stevens, Scribners, May 1999; paperback, May 2001
Excerpt from Magic City, Chapters 22 & 23, Callaloo: A Journal of African- American and African Arts and Letters, a Special Section on Jewell Parker Rhodes, Vol. 20, no. 2, 1997
"Mining Magic, Mining Dreams: Conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes, Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, a Special Section, vol. 20, no. 2, 1997
"Home Again Home," (story) Hayden's Ferry Review (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), December 1995
"Enough Rides," (story) Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe, ed. Rowell, Westview Press, October 1995
"Block Party," All Together, Heath Middle Level Literature, D.C. Heath & Co., 1995: 96-101; Audio cassette: 7-4; reprinted, McDougal Littell Language of Literature: Grade 8, Pupil & Annotated Teacher version; reprinted in “The Language Network,” McDougal Littell, Evanston, Illinois, 2000, 2001; reprinted McDougal Literature, Grade 6, 2007; Educational Testing Service, State of Maryland High School Assessement Tests, 2006-11; McDougall Literature, Grade 8 Standards Lesson File, 2007-17; Grammar Handbook, Grade 8, 2007-20016
"Mirror, Mirror," (story) Bakunin, vol. 5, no. 2, Winter 1995: 75-93
"How I Came to Write Voodoo Dreams," (essay) Mount Vernon College: In Series 94-95, Program Notes: p. 12
"Grandmother," (essay) Honoring the Crone, part of a collaborative exhibit by sculptor, Lynn Slattery Hellmuth, 1994. (exhibited in various Wis. locations)
"How I Came to Write Voodoo Dreams," (essay) Times-Picayune, Oct. 1993
"Carolina Seeds," (story) Raven Chronicles, vol. 2, Summer 1992: 15-20
"Enough Rides," (story) Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, vol. 14, no. 1 (1991): 12 - 19
"Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen," (excerpt) Feminist Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 331 - 344
"Know What I Mean?" (story) Seattle Review, vol. XIII, no. 1 (Spring/ Summer 1990): 120-130
"The Accident," (story) Shooting Star Review, (Winter 1989/Spring 1990): 8-14
"Miz Martha," (story) Thema (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), Autumn 1989: 27-54; Reprinted: Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, vol. 13, #1, (Winter 1990/91): 54-67
"Long Distances," (story) Peregrine VII, (Summer 1989): 10-17; Reprinted: Mending the World: Contemporary Stories of the African American Family, Avalon Publishing Group, 2002; Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers. ed. Gloria Naylor, Little Brown, February 1996; and African Americans in the West: A Century of Short Stories, ed. Glasrud and Champion, University Press of Colorado, 2000; The Other Side of Truth, ed. Gale and Cull, Red Hen Press, 2005; Anthology of African American Women’s Literature, ed. Valerie Lee, 2006
"Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen," (essay) Ms. (1983): 28-31
"Separations," (story) Black Mountain Review 2, no. 1 (1982): 13-15 "Sister Liz, Spiritualist: An Interview," Sibyl-Child 4 (Fall 1980): 21-31
"Summer's End," (story) Cream City Review 4, no. 2 & 3 (April 1979): 27-33
"Bayou Teche," (story) Oakland Review 6 (1978): 74-78; Reprinted: Works and Days 1 (Spring 1979): 48-53; (With commentary about how "Bayou Teche" fits within my canon) Oakland Review: Twentieth-Fifth Anthology, eds. Jenkins, Holly, Plocek, Fall 1998
Twenty Television Scripts for an educational children's series, "Catercousins," WIIC-TV (an NBC affiliate), 1974-75
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: “In Praise of Teachers,” Scholastic Reader Blog “Passport Louisiana,” Paperback Doll Blog “Books I Have Loved,” Shelf Awareness: Book Brahmin “Long Distances,” (reprint) Oxford African American Studies Center, ed. Dr, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., April 2011 “August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Defenders Online, June 2009 “New Orleans’ Hurricane Katrinia: Resurrection Delayed,” NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Defenders Online, April 2009 “Down South,” (essay), Amazon Shorts, Amazon E-publication, 2007 “What Every Writer Needs to Know About Dialogue,” The Writer, 2007
CREATIVE WRITING JUDGE ADJUDICATIONS:
2021-2022 – Golden Kite Middle Grade Literary Award
2020-21 Mississippi State Contest Undergraduate Arrowhead Lit Magazine
2020 Ralph Munn Creative Writing Contest, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Public Library
2018 Judge, Maine Commission for the Arts
2017 Judge Tulsa Arts Fellowship in Fiction and Nonfiction
2009 Associated Writing Programs, Judge for Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
2008 Hurston Wright Legacy Award in Fiction
1999 Judge, $10,000 Drue Heinz Prize in Fiction, University of Pittsburgh Press 1998 Judge for National Writers' Voice Community Artists-in-Residencies
1998 Writers' Voice Community Committee Member of the National Writers Voice Project
1998 Judge for Regional Writers' Voice Artists-in-Residencies
1997 Judge, Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowships
1997 Judge, Short Story Competition, Maricopa Community Colleges
1996 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Panelist in Fiction & Non-Fiction
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS:
“Why I Write,” IBBY, United Kingdom, 2021
“Writing History, Uncovering Truths,” World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma
“Loretta Little Looks Back,” by Pickney & Pickney, New York Times Book Review, October 2020
“Imaginative Crossings: Creating Trans-Global and Trans-Cultural Narratives,” Cambridge Companion for Creative Writing, Cambridge, 2011
Book Columnist. Arizona Foothills. September 2005, December 2005, June 2006, September 2006 (various literary titles)
Review, Terry McMillan's A Day Late and A Dollar Short, Washington Post Book World, January 2000
Review, Susan Straight's The Gettin Place, Flagstaff Live! March 6-19, 1997
"Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Irony of a 'Sweet Home' Utopia in a Dystopian Slave Society," Utopian Studies, Vol. I, no. 1, 1990: 77 - 92
. Commuter Marriage," (Cover Story), Ms. (1984): 44-48 Partial Reprint: "Commuter Marriages: The Toughest Alternative," Diversity in Families, Edited by Maxine Baca Zinn & D. Stanley Eitzen. New York: Harper & Row, first edition 1987, second edition 1990 Review, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, America 150, no. 7 (February 25, 1984): 137-138
"When Your Sense of Humor is Your Best Traveling Companion," (essay), Ms. Magazine (1983): 100; Reprinted: As "The Double Whammy," Revelations: An Anthology of Expository Essays By and About Blacks, Edited by Teresa M. Redd. New York: Ginn Press/ Simon & Schuster, 1993: 7-9, (2nd Ed, 1995); "Professional Traveling," From Thought to Theme, Edited by Smith and Liedlich. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (January 1993): 7-8; Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing, Edited by Eugene Hammond. New York: McGraw-Hill (1989): 7-8; Informative Writing, Edited by Eugene Hammond. NY: McGraw- Hill (1985): 225-226; Strategies: A Rhetoric and Reader, 2 Rev. ed. Edited by A.M. Tibbetts and Charlene Tibbetts. Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company (December 1983): 165-166
"Ursula LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopian Vision," Women in Utopia, Edited by Marleen Barr and Nicholas Smith. Maryland: University Press of America (November 1983): 108-120
"Black Women: Images and Realities," Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 6, no. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 1981): 89 (Abstract)
"Mumbo Jumbo and a Somewhat Private Literary Response," American Humor: An Interdisciplinary Newsletter 6, no. 2 (Fall 1979): 11-13
"Female Stereotypes in Medieval Literature: Androgyny and the Wife of Bath," Journal of Women's Studies in Literature 1, no. 4 (Autumn 1979): 348-352
EDITORIAL REVIEWS/CONSULTANT PROJECTS:
Contributing Editor, The Los Angeles Review, January 2003, Inaugural Issue
Referee, University of Utah Press, Nonfiction Ms., June 2001
Referee, Callaloo: Journal of African & African-American Literature, 1994-2000
Reviewer, Call and Response: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of African-American Literature, McGraw-Hill College Division, New York, 1995
Consultant, "Who Are We?” Stories of Immigration and Migration," Student Project Book and Teacher's Team Planning Edition for the Witness- Interdisciplinary Investigations Series, D.C. Heath and Co., 1995 Reviewer, "The Woman That I Am": Literature and Culture by Women of Color (St. Martin's Press, College Division), 1993
Editorial Consultant, Feminist Studies, 1984-1997
OTHER HONORS, GRANTS (since 1980):
2010 Living History Award, Phoenix Chapter of The Links, Inc., the Phoenix Chapter of Jack & Jill of America, Inc. and the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Phoenix Gamma Mu Chapter
2010 Medallion Award, National Society of Arts and Letters, Greater Arizona Chapter
2008 BlackPoet Ventures Angazza Award
07-08 $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for Distinguished Lecture Series (ASU Piper Center); co-writer, Charles Jensen
07-08 $20,0000 Storytelling Student Pathway (with Professors Miguel Valenti, Dan O’Neill); to develop techniques to tell business stories more creatively
2007 YWCA Tribute to Women Honoree, Communication Leader Award, Arizona
2006 $16,000 Women & Philanthropy Three Year Grant (to provide scholarships to undergraduates for the annual ASU Writers Conference, 2007-2010))
2005 Faculty Women’s Association Award for Scholarship and Leadership
2004 “Excellence in Education Award,” Ronald McDonald House Charities
2004 “Legacy and Destiny” Award, Colorado Women’s Missionary Society
2004 Arizona Historical Heritage Grant, $125,000 to renovate Piper Writers House (awarded to ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; authors included campus architect, Joseph Marra & CLAS Development Office)
2001 Member of the Arizona Women's Forum/International Women's Forum, an international "organization of preeminent women of significant and diverse achievement."
2001 Renaissance Weekend Member, "Non-partisan, family retreats founded in 1980 to build bridges among innovative leaders in diverse fields" 2001 Women's Studies Summer Grant (for the novel-in-progress, Voodoo Season)
2001 CITYAZ, Class of 2001, recognized as one of Phoenix's Outstanding Artists
2000 Outstanding Faculty, ASU College of Extended Education
2000 Sabbatical Leave Grant (for Douglass' Women)
1999 Women's Studies Research Grant (for Douglass' Women)
1999 Outstanding Honors Thesis Advisor, Honors College, Arizona State University
98-99 ASU Graduate Recruitment Grant, co-authored with K. Elling & A. Rios
1997 ASU Graduate College Recruitment Grant for the Creative Writing Program
Writer's Voice Community Writer-in-Residence, Paradise Valley YMCA
95-96 Dean's Quality Teaching Award, Arizona State University
1996 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Panelist in Fiction & Non-Fiction
1995 ASU Graduate Student English Association Mentoring Award, Creative Writing
Sabbatical Leave Approved. Request categorized as "truly outstanding and exceptional," California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
1993 Center for the Humanities Grant, CSUN
1992 Certificate of Appreciation from The Future Teachers Club, an SCTA Chapter for Outstanding Contributions to the Students and Staff, CSUN
1992 CSU and CSUN Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award
1991 Affirmative Action Faculty Development Grant (to prepare new courses in African-American Women's Literature), CSUN
90-91 Instructional Development Program Grant (for the course "Issues in Minority Literature" with Dr. Benjamin Saltman), CSUN
1990 CSU and CSUN Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award
1990 California State University Distinguished Teaching Award 1989 CSUN Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant
Travel Grant; University of Reggio Calabria, Italy; Utopian Studies Conference
National Women's Studies Association Scholarship
1982 Association of American Colleges' Minority Achievement Grant (with Dr. Carol Petro, for the development of a Career Encouragement/Tutorial Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo)
1982 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction
1982 Creative and Performing Arts Grant, University of Maryland
1980 Yaddo Arts Colony Fellowship, Saratoga Spring, New York
INVITED FICTION READINGS/KEYNOTES/PRESENTATIONS/ NATIONAL BOOK & MEDIA TOURS:
I’ve given hundreds of talks for schools, libraries, conferences, and during multiple-city media tours for each of my books. Classroom zooms Missouri, New York, Illinois, Texas, South and North Carolina, Indiana, Georgia, Vermont, Oregon, California, Nebraska, Arizona, ecetera. Highlights include:
Neev Literary Festival, Bangalore, India
9/11 graphic novel launch for Lauren Tarshis I Survived: The Attacks of September 11, 2001 Over 20 skypes, girl scout, community, etc.
BYU Symposium on Books for Young Readers, WSCSS – K-8 Ghost Boys to Black Brother, Black Brother: Racism, Bias, & Colorism" - February 2021 National African American Read-In Day, Feb. 2021 (K-12 students across Dallas Independent School District with Follett and Dallas Independent School District
Shoreline Public Schools – Ghost Boys and Ninth Ward Read-In (January 2021)
Children’s Lit Festival, University of Central Missouri. March 2021 Frank F. Islam Athenaeum Presentation Montgomery College, 2021
Festival of Words, Delaware, 2021 Panelist and Presentation
National African American Read In Dallas & Follett, 2021 Ghost Boys to BBBBN: Racism, Bias, and Colorism
HYPERLINK "https://vimeo.com/463032414" \t "_blank" Elevating Voices with the Teacher Kickoff Event scheduled for Ghost Boys for Wednesday (January 27th) at 4 pm EST. NY CITY wide GB Study fro m Teaching Matters
NCTE - Topic: Why Middle Matters -- A Convergence of Texts: The Middle Level Mosaic , 2020 VSLA 2021 Conference in March!
BYU Symposium on Books for Young Readers Feb 2021 Yaddo Presents: Words Have Power: Inspiring Equity, environmental justice, and joy with Dr. JPR and Shay Youngblood
“Imagining Douglass” – A conversation with author Colum McCann and Jewell Parker Rhodes, including readings from McCann’s novel Transatlantic and Parker Rhodes’ novel Douglass’s Women (chaired by Dr Chanté Mouton Kinyon (University of Notre Dame)) 2021
Hachette Book Group and Project Lit 2020 SoftBank Investments, Diversity Keynote, 2020
Shoreline Public School, community read Ninth Ward & Ghost Boys Featured Speaker, Teaching Matters, NYC-wide teaching of GHOST BOYS2020 Featured Speaker, Euclid Public Library, September 2020 Featured Speaker, Langley School, April 2020 First Reads, Chicago Public Library Panelist, Atlanta Anti-Racism Virtual Town Hall, ABC/NBC tv special, September 2020
Featured Speaker, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Reading Authors, 2019
Speakers, OCMBS Syracuse, NY, 2019
Panelist, Charlotte Huck Awardee, NCTE
Keynotes Michigan 2019 for Kalamazoo Public Library and KPL Youth Literature Seminar sponsored by Kansas Public Schools; (Kalamazoo School Visits, including Women’s Juvenile Detention Center)
Belfair Montessori Magnet School, Baton Rouge, La. 2019
Panelist, NCTE, Houston 2018, “Brave Conversations: Empowering Student Voice in the Real World;” “Using Diverse Literature to Build Empathy and Awareness in Middle Schoolers,” and “Magic City: Writing Fiction to Unearth the Silenced Voices of the Tulsa Race Riots”
Michigan Association of Media Educators, Keynote, 2018
UK Book Tour, including Bath School Festival visits, Ilkey Literary Festival and panel on diversity and reality in Middle Grade literature, Ilkey School Visits in Leeds, p Henley Literary Festival panel, “The Power of Writing” Featured Author, National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., 2018
Panelist, “Putting Books to Work,” (2 workshop sessions), International Literacy Association (ILA) Austin, Texas, 2018
Keynote….., Jackson Hole Writers Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 2018
Texas/IDEA, week of visits to Texas IDEA schools (Brownsville, San Antonio, Austin, Brownsville, etc.), May 2018
“Authors in April,” week tour of local elementary and middle schools, Rochester, Michigan, April 2018
Panelist, “Ripped from the Headlines,” & “Crossing Borders.” Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, Arizona, 2018
National Book Tour, Atlanta, D.C., Boston, St. Louis, St. Paul, Portland, Seattle, April 2018
Panelist, “Equity and Inclusion in Children’s Literature,” ILA West, Los Angeles, 2018
Keynote Speaker, Middle Grade Luncheon, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), St. Louis, Mo., 2017
Panelist, “Recapturing Voices of Social Justice: Two Novels for Intermediate/Middle Graders,” Moderator, Dr. Ann Neely, NCTE, 2017
Panelist, “Speaking Out in a Culture of Silence,” ALAN, St. Louis, Mo. 2017 moderator, Dr. Ebony Thomas, 2017 Alachua County Library, Gainsville, Florida, Multi-School and Library Visits, 2017
Keynote Speaker for Scholastic Reading Summits in Raleigh, North Carolina and Washington, D.C. “Bearing Witness to the Power of Reading,” 2017
Keynote, NCTE Whole Language Summer Institute, Arizona, "Creating Empathy, Diversity One Character, One Book at a Time," 2017
Keynote, Shenandoah University Children’s Literature Conference, “Reading And Writing Diversity,” 2017 HYPERLINK "https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=gGy9eK5rOTI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGy9eK5rOTI
Bookmarks Festival, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Featured Author, 2016
Scholastic Reading Club Annual “Our Favorite Authors Talk About Their Favorite Teacher” Breakfast, International Literacy Association Conference, St. Louis, Mo., 2015
“Self-love and Creative Narratives,” University Career Women Keynote, 2015
“Diversity and Character-Driven Fiction,” Children’s Institute, American Booksellers Association, Pasadena, California, 2015
Panelist/presenter, “Getting Beyond Diversity and Getting to the Story,” Kidlitosphere Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, 2014
Voodoo Dreams, Reading & Q & A, the Financial Times/Oxford Literary Festival, England, 2014
Keynote Address, Creative Arts Seminar, “Winnowing Memories: Childhood, Elders, and Oral Tales,” National University of Singapore/Ministry of Education, 2011
“Katrina’s Children: Moving Beyond the Storm Together,” co-panelist with Shadra Strickland, Southern Festival for Books, Nashville, Tennessee, 2010
Speculative Fiction: Fantasy, Horror and the Supernatural in the Literature of Black Writers, 2010 National Black Writers Conference, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, NY Reading, Aberystwyth University, Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth, Wales, 2009
Reading, Ninth Ward, Literary Showcase, featured book, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Yale Club, 2009
Featured Author, “Morning Read” panel, “A Conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes (interviewer: Chandani Lokuge)” and Workshop Seminar on “Writing Thrillers and Mysteries,” Melbourne Literary Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
Reading, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 2009
Reading, “African American Literary Cavalcade,” Ohio State University, Ohio, 2007
Keynote Reading with Ruby Dee, Up South: International Writers of the Diaspora Conference, New York, NY, 2009
Keynote Reading, National Black McDonald’s Owners Association, Nassau, Bahamas, 2007
“Douglass’s Women: History and Imagination,” Reading Circle for Visiting Sichuan University Faculty, ASU Center for American & Cultural Studies, 2007
Keynote Reading, Runnymeade International Literary Conference, University of London: Royal Holloway, England, 2006
Moderator & Panelist, “Crossing Borders: Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction,” 412 Festival, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
Reading, “Celebration of Southwestern Writers,” Warwick University, Surrey, England, 2004
Recent ASU Service P&T committee – two promotion reviews 2020-2022 – Regents Professor Nominating Committee
Open Book Board Member
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Member, Associated Writing Programs Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators Invited Renaissance Weekend Member Arizona Women's Forum/International Women's Forum
First Friday Reading from the Library Chicago Atlanta Race Matters: TV Special
590 Reading & Conference Ethnic Literature Childrens Literature Adventure and Surviival
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